Island: The Collected Stories

Hardcover, fine condition throughout. Dust jacket likewise fine, clean and bright, with no tears, fading, or rubbing. Boards square and unmarked. Pages clean throughout. Published by McClelland & Stewart Inc., Toronto, Ontario, 2000. With a foreword by John McGahern. Island brought together, for the first time in one volume, Alistair MacLeod's two previous and internationally acclaimed short story collections — The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun (1986) — together with two new, previously unpublished stories. Set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the stories are concerned with the complexities of the human heart, the bonds and chasms between man and woman, parent and child, and a continuity of generations in the face of love, loss, and transition. Alistair MacLeod was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, and longtime professor of English and creative writing at the University of Windsor, raised among extended family in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The same year Island was published, MacLeod's only novel, No Great Mischief, made him the first Canadian writer to win the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, bringing him international recognition after decades of being known primarily within Canada. MacLeod was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2008 in recognition of his contribution to Canadian literature. Island won the PEN/Malamud Award. ISBN 0-7710-5568-4.